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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Aya in Philippines

Posted by admin on January 27, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 13.9068S, 121.1199WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 1 kilometers (1 miles) from Aya in Philippines on Monday. Global time and date of event 12/01/20 / 2020-01-12 20:25:57 / January 12, 2020 @ 8:25 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us60007eue. Event ids that are associated: us60007eue. The temblor was picked up at 04:25:57 / 4:25 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 121.1199 East, latitude 13.9068 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Mamburao, Meycauayan, Boac. Earthquake epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Manila (c. 10 444 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Quezon City (c. 2 761 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Taguig (c. 644 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Pasig City (c. 617 300 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Antipolo (c. 549 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Makati City (c. 510 400 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Philippines (c. 99 900 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days fourty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 1 km NNE of Aya, Philippines.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1199° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 13.9068° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 1km NNE of Aya, Philippines Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-01-12 20:25:57 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-01-27 20:33:10 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.34 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 148 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us60007eue Id of event.
Event Code 60007eue An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60007eue, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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